Bill Gates gives Scottish University £1m

Super rich Bill Gates have give £1 million to the Universty of Edinburgh in Scotland to help research childhood pneumonia, something that kills millions of young children every year. The money will be used to help...

Wiltshire crop circle identified as symbolic code for first ten places of pi

" Mathematicians are perplexed after a highly complex crop circle appeared in a Wiltshire field - depicting a fundamental mathematical symbol. The circle is, apparently, a coded image representing a complex...

Carbon-dioxide out; "synchronized chaos" in MAJOR NEW THEORY PROPOSED TO EX...

""Arctic Ocean Getting Warm; Seals Vanish and Icebergs Melt"--Washington Post headline, November 2, 1922.        If there was any doubt that fear-mongering has long been...

New York Times Sex-Partner Study: WTF?

I'm fond of pointing out that I'm terrible at math, but this New York Times article (excerpted on freerepublic.com) confuses the heck out of me. It's about how it's mathematically certain that either men or women...

'Cloaking device' idea proposed

Ever watched Star Trek and dreamt what it would be like to disappear into thin air?  Two mathematicians are claiming that cloaking devices may not be so far fetched after all.

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